From: sens@FASECON.ECON.NYU.EDU (Sunando Sen) Subject: Re: Shutdown doesnt unmount Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1993 19:19:31 GMT
In article <1993Sep11.104331.1@vax.sonoma.edu> levinson@vax.sonoma.edu writes:
>In article <CD46to.J5v@inviso.com>, gilbert@inviso.com (Gilbert Callaghan) writes:
>> In article <1993Sep8.094234.1@vax.sonoma.edu> levinson@vax.sonoma.edu writes:
>>>
>>>Well, I got SLS 1.01, and I have since gone from .99pl9-6 all the way to
>>>.99pl12 without obtaining all of the support files. Like I said, if I use
>>>shutdown now and go single user and type umount -a, it works. If I just use
>>>shutdown -r now it doesnt unmount root.
>>
>> Shutdown runs the script '/etc/brc' which actually does the job of umounting:
>>
>> /etc/brc:
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>> echo "Unmounting Filesystems"
>> umount -a
>>
>> and make sure it's owned by root with perms 700.
>
>Thanks for your information, Gilbert. I have had users from all over the world
>telling me I needed utile14, but it has programs in it that are much older than
>the ones I downloaded off of the ftp systems. For example, the shutdown
>command has a date of last year, where the shutdown I got with my SLS package
>is much newer.
>
>I did create a /etc/brc, but did not set the permissions on it. I will try it
>and get back to you on it.
>
But have you tried bootutils-1.0 and svinit-2.4? I use the mount & unmount
from the former and the init and shutdown from the latter. This combination
seems to work.
Sunando Sen